skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you underestimate how specialized law can be.

I have a relative who is a lawyer and legal attorney who would definitely not know this and when asked would answer that it is not his speciality and that he would have to do more research.

He's an attorney in employment law, and I asked him some things about criminal law and he did not know, and when pressed to make a guess, his guess was wrong.

It seems that law is quite complicated, and that lawyers have their specialities.
As a Waterloo CS grad who moved to the US, I'd say while I am quite happy here and have no plans to leave, all else being equal, I probably would have preferred to stay in Canada. In fact, we had a faculty member who moved to Canada from the US and was somewhat shocked to hear I accepted a faculty position in the US because dealing with funding here is much more painful than in Canada.
I always wonder why other companies did not take on this approach. When you dig up oil you get natural gas too. But oil and natural gas companies are seen in competition.

Like wise when you exhaust an oil gas field you get free land for solar and wind.

These things were such no Brainers.
>> A single PostgreSQL instance can easily do hundreds of thousands of transactions per second

For example, on my (pretty average) workstation, I can do ca. 25k simple read transactions per 1 CPU core on an “in memory” pgbench dataset…with the default config for Postgres v13! With some tuning (by the way, tuning reads is much harder in Postgres than tuning writes!) I was able to increase it to ~32k TPS per core, meaning: a top-notch, dedicated hardware server can do about 1 million short reads! With reads, you can also usually employ replicas – so multiply that by 10 if needed! You then need to somehow solve the query routing problem, but there are tools for that. In some cases, the new standard LibPQ connection string syntax (target_session_attrs) can be used – with some shuffling. By the way, Postgres doesn’t limit the number of replicas, though I personally have never witnessed more than 10 replicas. With some cascading, I’m sure you could run dozens without bigger issues.

This sort of hand-wavy "benchmark" is not really good for anybody other then the author's satisfaction. Real world scenarios are not like that.
Curious: was this an acqui-hire? Anybody have intel about deal terms?
That's awesome!

I run a little community monitor for my little community in Gary, IN. https://millerbeach.community.

I track PM2.5/10 with a PurpleAir, but want to start tracking other pollutants/gases/VOCs, but there is no consumer-grade equipment, and I wish I could afford the $5k purchase + $1-3000 per year rental of the scientific-grade equipment from Ambilabs, EarthSense, or Kunak.

I see this is PM2.5 + CO, is it possible to add other sensors to it, too?
> Employers aren’t your family.

Unless you work for the family business ;)
I agree that the extreme views about banning beef are counter-productive. We saw the craziness that right-wing outlets propagated with a mere DRAFT version of the Green New Deal on AOC's website...this is just an HTML document uploaded by a staffer...that led to months of mis-characterization and damage to the perception of the left's views of climate.

I still think beef is a wasteful, unethical luxury, and every bite of beef comes via great cost to the millions of species going extinct and the future devastation of coastal and island peoples.

In my view, we need to place taxes on behaviors that are bad for society. Barring that impossibility, we need to develop meat alternatives, change hearts and diets, and also reform the beef industry towards sustainability. I think ideally, we'd always have cows, but in far, far lesser numbers.
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> ... wouldn't it be a better option to rely on python scripting by providing a plugin API

NeoVim is using Lua for this very reason. It fits the bill nicely, and is quite fast.
I totally agree with this:

> People want long form writing platforms, but don't want to choose between Twitter, where people are, and blogging, where people aren't.

But this:

> short broadcasts that are hashtag groupable just is not a useful platform

I completely disagree with.

It's been proven to be a very useful platform indeed. Again, not for long form blogging, but for short to-the-point announcements that can instantly reach a wide audience (and that can be grouped with related announcements and quickly searched for) - I think it's incredibly useful.
> In March 2020, Kunlun announced that it will sell its 98.59% stake in Grindr to U.S.-based San Vicente Acquisition LLC for $608.5 million

You may be using a slightly expansive definition of 'small company'.
I think that's a long lost battle and they know it. They're going for attrition. People don't want to be tracked, and clicking all the don't track buttons 78 times a day is annoying, so eventually they say fuck it and just start clicking Accept All.

There need to be fines for this. They're clearly violating the spirit of the law, if not the exact letter (and I think much of Europe has legal systems that follow the spirit more than the letter, don't they?)
Study didn't include Australia or New Zealand, two extremely important data points, IMHO.
Maybe libc?
You experience sleep paralysis daily?!? I want to cry for you thinking of the terror you must be having to endure. I'm so sorry.
>If something returns poorly on average, but has high payouts at the top it might just work out. Your life won’t be the average case but single sample.

This almost certainly results in a worse average outcome, because of diminishing returns on income. Winning a 10M jackpot won't bring you 10,000 times the happiness compared to finding $1000 on the ground.
> [in the UK] the largest one owns like 90% of the stations

This article says that Ubitricity has the largest network of electric charging points. I can't reconcile that with your statement about 90%. Which provider were you referring to there?
That's partly down to agreements with the EU competition regulator from the acquisition, AIUI.
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I see this as a "it's so hard to run a business with all these rules" argument.

We both know rules are extremely clear and simple. They get complicated when companies try to go around them.
Brexit seems like it was a bad move that the UK will regret. But transitional problems like this are IMO to be expected any time there's a change. If you are in favor of leaving the EU, this shouldn't be a significant regret factor. "Just" more frustrations in government rollout of new programs.
I'd say that the original investors in Red Hat have had their premium for all the hungry years, selling the business to IBM for $34 billion !
Users should ask for something, and the build should build that, or fail if it can't.

Randomly linking against things if they happen to be available is a terrible idea.

Does any build ecosystem except C do this? I'm not sure even CMake does this.
They are places where people write profiles and post their pictures.

They seem somewhat scary to me, in that anyone one knows might encounter one on it.
> The Twitter brand isn't looking so hot right now.

I see "current press sentiment" as an irrelevant factor. Just wait until some prominent right winger heads to Substack and the journalists start aiming their sights.

The point is, if I'm going to start a paid newsletter, am I willing to give up an extra 5% of my income for the same feature set?

The answer is hell no. Substack will have to lower their prices, and then the feature war will begin. Twitter will always have the upper hand given they can directly integrate newsletter sign up forms into twitter.

But hey, bureaucratic incompetence is endemic at Twitter, so they might screw up this obvious path to victory they have in front of them.
I keep saying it IRL but I'll say it here: the first net zero, zero waste 3PL and ecommerce supply chain will be a $10T company. Amazon seems to be pursuing this more and more when you look at their investments.
What unmitigated cowardice! If a company chooses to offend only when there's little risk to the bottom line, they're not a brave cultural vanguard. They're the establishment hiding under an "edgy" patina.
<link rel="preload" (see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading...) is the interesting one here! Great to see it finally landed in Firefox!
> The library (of Alexandria) flourished until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BCE and it was burned down and thousands of scrolls were lost.

This is just one of those legends that won't die. There was, indeed, an accidental fire in 48 BCE, but it didn't destroy everything in one cataclysmic event. The Library was in continuous operation and declined slowly over centuries. It's likely many of the scrolls were dispersed by scholars to other libraries.
Bryan Fogel, the director, explains his disappointment that his documentary is not part of the regular subscription on (AppleTV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.) streaming services here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/15p3DpjZeaXCwcXyGTytMj?
I know one of the biggest Ecommerce shop in Asia were using 1 big DB with multiple read only slave in monolithic architecture for more than 5 years.

However not only driven by DB performance, but also on organizing hundreds of engineers they adapted microservice architecture. Then they slowly migrating to per domain specific DB, it is just classic microservice migration story.

While single DB may bring us pretty long way, designing the system into more discipline logical domain level segregation will help when there's need to move to microservice.

*looks like HN reader quite sensitive with microservice migration comment, usually this kind of comment got down voted easily.
Citadel is a market maker on the nyse... They can naked short GME.
>Exactly. I first heard the bull thesis from Michael Burry. Hardly a gambler.

The problem with this argument is that there's always an "expert" that can justify your speculative positions.
A hedge fund with $12.5 billion in assets lost so much money that two other hedge funds had to step in and save it with a capital injection of $2.75 billion.

You tell me.
These were not libraries in the modern sense so much as private archives, owned and controlled by religious orders or royalty and only available to a select few.

The oldest public library in the world, as far as I know, is the Biblioteca Malatestiana, established in 1447 and owned collectively by the town of Cesena, Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malatestiana_Library

In this image you can see the books still chained to their desks to prevent theft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malatestiana_Library#/media/Fi...

EDIT: It's worth mentioning that this is still Cesena's public library. Here's the library's website: http://www.comune.cesena.fc.it/malatestiana. Check out the kid's section ("Ragazzi").
> There is a big difference between Canonical and Oracle, between Zappos (before Amazon bought them) and Walmart

Right up to the moment where there isn't.

Some companies have great values, a great culture, an inspiring mission and they'll be relatively consistent in maintaining these things for quite extended periods of time: years, sometimes even decades. That's really easy to do during the good times: when you're hitting your numbers and all the trendlines are pointing upwards.

However, when things get more difficult - when there's a downturn, competitors move in, or the market simply moves on - that equation changes a lot. Sooner or later under those circumstances every business has to start making hard calls that will make it very clear to all involved that it is not a family.

We can all point to examples of businesses that have gone out of their way to look after their employees during the pandemic. But even they can't do so indefinitely (hopefully they won't have to try if the vaccination programmes work as well as we all hope). Sooner or later the values of a business will become subservient to commercial reality even if that doesn't happen to our values as individuals.
Those aren't anachronisms, they actually existed in the 80s and 90s on private online networks.

Real-time chat? Compuserve's CB Simulator. Craigslist? Compuserve certainly had classified ads as I'm sure did most of the others, including BIX. Usenet/Bullet Boards for interest groups? Compuserve Interest Groups, and every other service had that as well. Online gaming was also available on most of the networks, but special shout-out to Air Warrior that ran on GEnie.

You could also purchase airline reservations via SABRE which was supported by Compuserve and GEnie, get news, stock quotes, etc.

And yes, most of those services started out buying timeshare cycles from the likes of oil, insurance, and banking companies during evenings and weekends.
>> one of the most blatently horrible incidents

For all the horror, this was still only one person, one victim, killed. There are a great many other incidents in which large numbers of people have been deliberately killed yet we seem to just take such things as normal. The specifics of Khashoggi's murder were shocking, but the murder or disappearance of such persons is far from unusual on the world stage.

Fyi, a similar Saudi kill team was recently intercepted at a Canadian airport. Such attempts at murder barely make news, only coming to light via lawsuits months later.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55232926

"The court filing says the group - which included a man from the same department as the man accused of dismembering Khashoggi - were carrying two bags of forensic tools. However, Canadian border agents "quickly became suspicious" of the group and refused them entry after interviewing them, it says."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/saudi-hit-squad-aljab...

"Public Safety Minister Bill Blair would not comment on the specific allegations in the lawsuit but said the government was aware of incidents in which foreign actors have tried to monitor, intimidate or threaten Canadians and people in Canada."
https://nebiocalculator.neb.com/#!/ssrnaamt 10 million moles of RNA of length 50 turns out to be a large amount of RNA... but then again there was like a billion years for life to develop, all around the world.
> I don’t know what an ISA is

I’m not certain, but I was able to find “income sharing agreement” in this document.

https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2114/BILLS-116s2114is.pd...

Edit to add:

Possible related a company he is involved in student loans.

“SoFi, which is now led by ex-Twitter COO Anthony Noto, was founded more than a decade ago to offer ways to secure better financial terms for student loans.”

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/sofi-nears-deal-public-mer...
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I've wondered if air quality was an issue where I live but wanted to also be able to do something about it so I bought and air purifier with an air quality sensor (Winix D480). It mostly kicks up in the morning but I have no idea what is causing it to think the air quality is bad. For those who've gotten a real sensor how do you track what's actually causing the air quality issues so you can do something about it? I live close (1400ft / 444m) to a major highway so I've wondered if that could be a "source" but no idea how to tell.
Lets see if their actions follow their words.
If you want something that is too big for a box (like crates or pallets) but not big enough to ship a whole truckload, then you ship LTL.
That is like saying robbery is better than murder. Yes, it is true that Canonical is better than Oracle, but they are all businesses in the end. I've had a dozen jobs so far, some were better than others, even fun. But the one common thread in all of those jobs is - none of them gave a shit about me, however hard/smart I worked for them. I've experienced the same as a paying customer.

Customers, employees, partners etc are all means to one end, and one only - making someone rich
There's also Brickset:
www.brickset.com/
Is it possible that not making that level of data available is purposeful from a security point of view?

Western European countries (among others) worry about threats to their "Critical National Infrastructure", whether in person (terrorist with a bomb) or as a cyber attack. Providing a big map with all transmission lines, power plants and substations seems like it would be a big help to an unsophisticated terrorist, showing them what to blow up.
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> Edit: And worst of all is this very confusing pattern with two columns of toggle buttons, one of which concerns "legitimate interest": https://toot.cafe/@peter/105367185171860458

That's pretty awful, how are you even supposed to interpret that? I'm guessing it's something like "first || !second", because that would be the sleaziest.
The assertion that PostgreSQL can handle dozens of TB of data needs to be qualified, as this is definitely not the case in some surprising and unexpected cases that are rarely talked about.

PostgreSQL's statistics collection, which is used by the query planner, doesn't scale with storage size. For some ordinary data distributions at scale, the statistical model won't reflect any kind of reality and therefore can produce pathological query plans. It is quite difficult to get around this scaling behavior. Consequently, I've moved away from using PostgreSQL for data models with distributions such that these query planner limitations will occur. These pathologies occur well before the "dozens of TB" range.

The statistics collector is not a scalable design generally, but that is another matter. In its current state it does not degrade gracefully with scale.
That is how it should be. Legitimate interest means they don't need your consent. They actually shouldn't be prompting for it at all. Adding it to the consent box is a kind of cargo culting going on.
Seems pretty obvious by this stage that lockdowns don't bring benefits proportional to the massive costs. Just look at Peru, who "locked down hard, locked down early" and for months. The insanity needs to end.

Lockdowns do have one benefit for those imposing them. If cases go down - "see lockdowns are working". If cases go up governments can blame the plebs - "it's your fault, you didn't follow the rules"
Very nice! I created this a while ago: https://fretty.app
What kind of financial losses are we realistically talking about from being denied such tracking? what kind of percentages of lesser revenue?
Revue looks amazing. But why so many twitter permissions required to login?
I have been making something like this for Java which manages to mostly play OK with the type system, at least for expression trees.
So sad to read her account...stress is a deadly condition. De-stressing during pandemic is harder than ever, but we must try. Exercise, diet, sleep, things like meditation or yoga, reduction of substance use, increase of time spent in the outdoors, I've been trying all of the above to varying degrees of success.
At what point are those kind of acquisitions anticompetitive?
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Just put us into re-education camps, take away our children, and give us 'Domestic/White Terrorism' social credit scores already.
In big enough organizations, it is very easy to lose track of who owns what, especially when it is those little ad-hoc internal tools. Manually managing the infrastructure for them is a recipe for them to become permanently enshrined in the wasteland of "services we think we use, but do not maintain because we don't remember who needed it or put it up or how to configure it".

K8s isn't the only answer, but if you are already using it for your large applications, it isn't much work to reuse the existing tooling and infrastructure, and now you st least have the dockerfile as a reference if nothing else.

OTOH, if you have an existing tooling setup / pipeline that is not K8s, there isn't a good reason to use it for a small application.
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It's certainly down to bad legal advice. Lawyers are trained to take everything they can get. If it turns out that was too much, then they frame it as a bargaining chip, as leverage to at least recover some fraction of what they previously took.

It's sneaky, immoral, unethical and illegal. It also works.
dunno. is it due to scripts on html page that does highlighting? or
The Creators arms race is in full swing, and the winner will be who can deliver the way to most monetize your existing audience AND expand your audience. Twitter already has a strong interest graph and is well positioned here
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I made it to one of Jim’s dinners in 2014. As someone said, the dinner was so so but the conversations were quite enjoyable. I’m glad I got to go.
> Want or need?

I think it's need. There's plenty of chairwarmers hired as senior managers in my place of employment. The company would be doing radically better if these people were genuinely talented and dedicated, but apparently it was too hard to hire such folks, so we got those impostors instead. The whole department is a mess as a result. And it's mostly the same across the whole org. The world just doesn't have that many talented and dedicated people, and also a lot of them decide to just launch their own businesses instead of being a part of some corporate charade.

> Besides basic problem solving ability that all humans have and a background with experiences that qualify you for the job there's nothing special about it.

Are you aware of basic problem solving abilities of average human? They're... not that great. Intelligence plays a key role in constructing good ad-hoc working theories as to the hidden/internal state of the mess you're currently working with. Smart people are just better/faster at it and the more complex the problem is (and we're working with problems of huge complexity - often with codebases that are to large to understand within a lifetime), the more important that becomes. Not to mention that there's plenty of people who just don't tolerate (emotionally) uncertainty too well, and they feel terrible at jobs like ours, preferring to be a supermarket clerk or doing something else with minimum uncertainty, exploration and decision-making. For example, my mother once worked with a woman who has severely stressed over having to learn to operate a new kind of cash register (and she was a clerk at a store). Imagine how well would she do in the world of front-end development...
I saw this movie recently and just wanted to say I highly recommend taking the time to watch it.

The official website has a list of paid services that you can watch it on

https://thedissident.com/

You will also be able to find it elsewhere
Didn't include "lock down early, lock down hard" Peru or Argentina either.
Whilst I'm not sure that there is strong evidence for this being related to the IBM acquisition, the idea of "blue wash" where acquired products have their licensing changed to fit in with IBM's way of doing things is so common that there's even an IBM web page about it https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/what-blue-wash.

To quote that page "Once customers upgrade to IBM?s product it is often too late to negotiate and avoid hefty licensing charges associated with changed licensing metrics? "
> (but which protocol? NTP doesn't offer the needed precision)

You might enjoy reading the documentation for NPLTime [1] which uses PTP over telecom fibre networks.

Of course, their target market is banks with record keeping requirements so it probably costs a fortune.

[1] https://www.npl.co.uk/npltime
Every software vendor could learn a thing or two from the great presentation of FFX release notes.
Also worth checking: https://guide.lugnet.com/set/
You mean, if there were other successful companies other than RedHat, the ecosystem would be more diverse?